Enkindle vs Unkinder - What's the difference?
enkindle | unkinder |
To kindle; to arouse or evoke.
* 1603-06, William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act 1, Scene 3:
* 1809, Philip Freneau, "Occasioned By a Legislation Bill proposing a Taxation upon Newspapers":
(unkind)
(obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.
Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.
Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.
* 1950 July 3, Politicians Without Politics'', '' ,
* 1974 , Laurence William Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse , 3rd Edition,
* 2000 , Edward W. Said, On Lost Causes'', in ''Reflections on Exile and Other Essays ,
As a verb enkindle
is to kindle; to arouse or evoke.As an adjective unkinder is
(unkind).enkindle
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Verb
(enkindl)- That, trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor.
- "By them enkindled , every heart grew warm, / "By them excited, all were taught to arm,
unkinder
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Adjective
(head)unkind
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Adjective
(en-adj)- (Shakespeare)
page 16,
- Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week?s unkindest remarks: “He plays golf like he plays politics — straight down the middle, and short.”
page 175,
- We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.
page 540,
- In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.